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<br />report. On October 8, 1986 the pikes Peak Area Council of <br />Governments also gave formal approval to the recommended system <br />and cost distribution formula and encouraged member communities <br />to contribute to its initial and ongoing funding. To their <br />credit and for their benefit, all of the communities mentioned <br />have agreed to provide their shares of the funding necessary to <br />establish the warning system. The system is expected to be <br />operating by the summer of 1987. <br /> <br />It should be noted that the warning system proposed is one <br />element in a region-wide planning, warning, and response approach <br />to threats pos~d by flash floods. Once it is in place, there <br />will still be a great need for local jurisdictions to cooperate <br />in all phases of region-wide disaster preparedness and hazard <br />mitigation. As a first step toward cooperative, comprehensive <br />flood plain planning, however, the development of the warning <br />system now is the best policy for all jurisdictions in the <br />Region. <br /> <br />In developing, designing, funding and implementing the flash <br />flood warning system, the local communities displayed a <br />cooperative spirit without precedence in the Pikes Peak Region. <br />with these same self-help and cooperative attitudes, the next <br />important steps in improving floodplain management can now be <br />taken for the benefit of all. <br /> <br />40 <br />